Lexicographical Neighbors of Provisors
Literary usage of Provisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of England by James Franck Bright (1889)
"But the appointment by the Pope of an Abbot of St. Edmunds, in 1380, produced a
repetition of the Statute of provisors of Edward III. ..."
2. Documents Illustrative of English Church History by Henry Gee, William John Hardy (1896)
"THE SECOND STATUTE OF provisors, A. D 1390. 13 RICHARD II, STAT. 2. 1390.
THE injustice of provision had been admitted as early as the days of Grosseteste ..."
3. The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development by William Stubbs (1880)
"The great statute of provisors, passed in 1351, was Legislation a very solemn
expression of the national determination ^sors? not to give way to the pope's ..."
4. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"Martin V and the Statutes of provisors and Prae- munire. Gloucester would dismiss
Eleanor and take back ..."
5. Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"2, 1353) Statutes of the Realm The Statute of provisors of 1351 was followed by
that of !353. ... A STATUTE OK provisors CAP. ..."
6. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"... and penalties of imprisonment, forfeiture, or outlawry, according to the degree
of the offence, were enacted against all " provisors," who should obtain ..."
7. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1901)
"Statute of provisors of Benefices (February, 1351. French text and translation,
I SR 316. 2 Stubbs, 430, 3 Stubbs, 324.) WHEREAS late in the parliament of ..."
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